Your Top 10 Movies of 2006

south pacific · **Posted:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:07 pm

thisotherkingdom Wrote:

Not having The Departed on your list is kinda like not having TV on the Radio in your top 10.

LOL. Well, I'm just not a TVOTR fan.

Haven't seen The Departed yet but wanted to. I think I must've missed out on some good indie flicks too...

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:37 pm

1. Stranger Than Fiction
2. Art School Confidential
3. X-Men: The Last Stand

I don't go to the theatres much.

Damen · **Posted:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:48 pm

The IMDb release dates are sometimes when the film premired at a festival. The film might not see a proper release until the next calender year.

not seen yet: Letters From Iwo Jima, Children of Men, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Last King of Scotland, Screamers

top 10 (in random order):
Pan's Labyrinth
The Departed
Hollywoodland
Brick
Flags of Our Fathers
Days of Glory
Borat
Grbavica
The Prestige
Volver

Saw & also liked:
The Good Shepherd
Little Miss Sunshine
Clerks II
Lonesome Jim

Saw & thought was okay (worth netflixing):
For Your Consideration
Nacho Libre
Art School Confidential
Talladega Nights (just for the scene where they sit down for dinner which I thought was one of the funniest scenes I saw all year. "Dad, you made that grace your bitch"

paladisiac · **Posted:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:59 pm

oh, i also saw Davinci Code, but that was boring. like tom hanks & co reading the book to me. *yawn*

shiv · **Posted:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:53 pm

I can't pick 10 and these aren't in order.

1. Borat
2. Hostel
3. The Hills Have Eyes
4. Inside Man
5. Hard Candy
6. United 93
7. Cars
8. The Descent
9. Jackass 2
10. The Departed
11. The Prestige
12. Casino Royale
13. Children Of Men

I suppose Pan's Labyrinth would be on there too if I'd seen it.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:26 pm

1. Little Miss Sunshine
2. Borat
3. The Departed
4. Babel
5. Munich
6. The Science of Sleep
7. Miami Vice
8. Inside Man
9. Brick
10. Children of Men

Black Magic Putin · **Posted:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:40 pm

1. Children of Men
2. Pan's Labyrinth
3. The Prestige
4. Brick
5. Slither
6. Casino Royale
7. Borat
8. Inside Man
9. The Descent
10. Wordplay
11. V for Vendetta
12. Little Miss Sunshine
13. Thank you For Smoking

Still waiting on the Departed. I'm one of those "grade remakes on a curve" folks though, so I don't think that I'd put it up here anyway.

harry · **Posted:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:41 pm

shiv Wrote:

5. Hard Candy
.

Ah, I forgot about this. The first two thirds were truly disturbing, but I thought it wimped out at the end.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Jan 08, 2007 11:57 pm

tommy TWO THUMBS Wrote:

9. Brick

Last year, right?

Great movie, though.

tkyd · **Posted:** Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:00 am

harry Wrote:

shiv Wrote:

5. Hard Candy
.

Ah, I forgot about this. The first two thirds were truly disturbing, but I thought it wimped out at the end.

I couldn't agree more. I liked it but the ending was weak.

For me, best:

Pan's Labyrinth
The Descent
Inside Man
Brick
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

Worst:
Black Dahlia

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:04 am

I liked Inside Man, but parts of it just seemed ridiculously hokey, movie-clichéd, and unnecessary.

The whole thing with the bank owner (that whole character), Jodie Foster, and Denzel's wife were over-the-top to the point of being silly. Didn't detract too much, though.

wenchlette · **Posted:** Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:07 am

I saw horribly few movies in the theatre this year, but Little Miss Sunshine is at the top of the list.

shiv · **Posted:** Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:17 am

harry Wrote:

shiv Wrote:

5. Hard Candy
.

Ah, I forgot about this. The first two thirds were truly disturbing, but I thought it wimped out at the end.

Really? I thought her making him hang himself was pretty fucked up.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:52 am

Drinky Wrote:

I liked Inside Man, but parts of it just seemed ridiculously hokey, movie-clichéd, and unnecessary.

The whole thing with the bank owner (that whole character), Jodie Foster, and Denzel's wife were over-the-top to the point of being silly. Didn't detract too much, though.

Great set up. Well acted. Nicely shot. The payoff was WEAK, tho. Real Weak.

The least "Spike" of all Spikes movies.

I did hear that he was planning on a sequel that would flesh out Foster's character a little more. That would be cool.

Best movie I saw this year was The Departed.

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:02 am

I can't rank these, other than saying The Departed was prolly my favorite.

The Departed
Brick (I thought that might've been '05, Drinky, but I just saw it a few weeks ago)
Little Miss Sunshine
Borat
The Prestige
Children of Men
Hard Candy
Clerks II

That's all I can come up with. Thank You For Smoking just arrived in the mail today, so I'll see that soon.

I'm gonna have to check out some of the movies on your list, thrillhouse. You seem like a big movie buff.

The Dreaded Marco · **Posted:** Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:08 am

2006 was the weakest year for movies in recent memory. I'm having a difficult time filling a top 10 list with movies that I thought were worthy.

Here are my favorites that I saw:

Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story
Thank You For Smoking
The Queen
Borat
Casino Royale
Catch A Fire
Blood Diamond
Little Miss Sunshine
The Departed
Stranger Than Fiction

That's the weakest top 10 list I've had in years.

Haven't seen: Pan's Labyrinth, Brick, Volver, Children of Men, Little Children, Letters from Iwo Jima

two guns holla · **Posted:** Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:15 am

Drinky Wrote:

tommy TWO THUMBS Wrote:

9. Brick

Last year, right?

Great movie, though.

Depends on how you look at it. It opened at various festivals throughout 2005, but opened in limited release in the US on April 7, 2006.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393109/releaseinfo

The Mayor of Simpleton · **Posted:** Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:26 am

thrillhouse Wrote:

how do you manage to see only one movie in a whole year?

16 month old daughter. We never do anything but buy diapers and groceries, it seems. Little Miss Sunshine was one of our few times out together, alone . . .

tkyd · **Posted:** Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:29 am

The Dreaded Marco Wrote:

Here are my favorites that I saw:

Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story

Good call. My memory sucks....

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